The foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea are preparing to meet this month for their first talks in nearly three years, in a bid to resolve tension over Japan's wartime past and discuss a three-way summit.

• Date: 12.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 12.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras tried to reassure euro zone partners on Thursday that Greece would stick to an extended bailout agreement with its international creditors even as a war of words rumbled on between Athens and Berlin.

• Date: 12.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 12.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

European Union leaders are unlikely to tighten sanctions on Russia when they meet next week but will haggle over whether they need to act now to prolong economic sanctions on Russia expiring in July, diplomats said on Thursday.

• Date: 12.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 12.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The United States on Wednesday placed sanctions on eight Ukrainian separatists and a Russian bank, warning that recent attacks by rebels armed by Russia violated a European-brokered ceasefire in the war-torn country.

• Date: 11.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 11.03.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia may ease the terms of its gas supplies to Ukraine but Kiev will have to pay for the gas Moscow is supplying to rebel-held areas of east Ukraine, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said.

• Date: 11.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 11.03.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The United States announced $75 million in non-lethal aid for Ukraine on Wednesday and placed sanctions on a handful of Ukrainian separatists, a Russian bank and others after accusing Russian-backed rebels of breaking a European-brokered ceasefire.

• Date: 11.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 11.03.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Warning Greece it had "no time to lose", euro zone ministers agreed technical talks between finance experts from Athens and its international creditors would start on Wednesday with the aim of unlocking further funding.

• Date: 10.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian tanks and heavy military equipment have crossed the Ukrainian border in the last few days in breach of a European-brokered ceasefire agreed on Feb. 12, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday.

• Date: 10.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/